Cemeteries

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its
graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built
after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1896, but we understand it was closed in 1975.

This chapel would appear to have been consumed by new housing development, as there is no trace of it in Kirkcroft Lane in the present day. It is however listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) as "Kirkcroft Lane Methodist Church", with an address of "Church Town"; and its position is recorded on Old Maps from 1898, as "Methodist Chapel (Free United)", until 1971, when it is labelled as "Killamarsh Methodist Church", but not on the next available Map, of 1976.

Kelly's Directory of 1932 mentions Primitive, and United Methodist Chapels in Killamarsh, but is unable to provide a date of foundation for either of them. Their 1895 directory mentions just the Primitive Chapel, so it is presumed the United Methodist Chapel was not yet built.

This was, in fact the case. Available records of Killamarsh Methodist Churches are included in Sheffield Methodist South Circuit; and those for "Killamarsh United Methodist Free Church (Kirkcroft Lane) include a Certificate as a Place of Worship 1896, a Final Service Sheet 1975, and a Church Register for the periods 1893-c1920, 1928-c1970s.

No notices of its solemnization for marriages have been found in The London Gazette, so presumably these records do not include marriages.

Denomination

Now or formerly Free/United Methodist.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here,
or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this
will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church was located at OS grid reference SK4589880920. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays)
Zoom out to 1:100000 to see County boundaries, and 1:500000 to show Parish Boundaries.

Reference

Places recorded by the Registrar
General under the provisions of the Places of Worship
Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a
"Freedom of Information" document from the website
What Do They Know.

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to
search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place
will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical
order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the
immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid
Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify
How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.

You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.

You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to
those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John'
would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.

You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return
George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.

You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination
is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you
can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'.
'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and
'Other' means anything not covered by other broad classes.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in
the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship
Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only.
For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might
like to try the site's
Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

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of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or
congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find
places of worship in the present day.